There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing… — Anna Netrebko Copy Share Image
The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently,” he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Holy love has a way of consuming some. This is what is meant by the one who said, 'You have ravished our… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird...… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Looks is more important… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Lure him out. Send in a 'customer' with a message from me needing to meet him. I'm not the kind of person… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a hot summer's day. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts.… — Jun Mochizuki Copy Share Image
You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
…he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The only time I've ever been mistaken for someone else is - and this arguable still - when a person came up… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Perhaps,” murmured his lordship, “I yielded to a compassionate impulse.” “A what?” gasped his best friend. “Oh, did you think I never… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said -… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, and Gandalf set the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
When I'm 18 years old, I'm at a friend's house. And his uncle looks me in me eye - you know, by… — Paula White Copy Share Image
The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I've heard it for years, if you're very successful you can't run for high office, especially for President. I said, I don't… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
A book came out recently written by scientists and environmentalists that made me so angry. It said the only thing we have… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the way the Internet has changed teenage life. Obviously it's very different from when I grew up, when… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
One day in Auschwitz I became so dispirited that I couldn't carry on. They had given me a beating, which wasn't exactly… — Otto Frank Copy Share Image
...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Sing to me," she said. "That would be valiant, to raise your voice in this dark, lonely place, and it will be… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Herman Cain is out there, he says a lot of provocative things. He said America should build its own Great Wall of… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
How are you?" "Perfectly fine," he said. "Are your ribs broken?" "Probably not. Cracked at most. We fought very carefully." "Did this… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill… — Paul Torday Copy Share Image
I took my grandmother to the emergency room. The doctor said that she was on an artificial life support system, and that… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
